sábado, 26 de outubro de 2013

A new European report on climate extremes is out

rasmus @ 26 October 2013
A new report on extreme climate events in Europe is just published: ‘Extreme Weather Events in Europe: preparing for climate change adaptation‘. It was launched in Oslo on October 24th by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and the report is now available online.

What’s new? The new report provides information that is more specific to Europe than the SREX report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and incorporate phenomena that have not been widely covered.
It provides some compelling information drawn from the insurance industry, and indeed, a representative from Muncih Re
participated in writing this report. There is also material on
convective storms, hail, lightening, and cold snaps, and the report
provides a background on extreme value statistics, risk analysis,
impacts, and adaptation.
The main difference with the recent IPCC reports (e.g. the SREX)
is the European focus and that it includes more recent results. The
report writing process did not have to follow as rigid procedures as the
IPCC, and hence the report is less constrained. For instance, it
provides set of recommendations for policymakers, based entirely on
scientific considerations.
The report, in which I have been involved, was initiated by the
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and was written by a committee
of experts across Europe. Hence, the final report was published as a
joint report by the Norwegian meteorological institute, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC)